SUMMARY

• Seeking a Lead or a Senior Architect role in a well established organization.
• I am a senior hands - on architect with a proven track record of creating valuable synergies between business and technology.
• I have a broad range of industry experience including high-tech, banking, investment, and government.
• My reputation is that of a proactive technical leader who likes to tackle difficult projects, innovator, and always able to deliver on what the business needs to succeed.
• In addition, my pragmatism and my “no-nonsense” approach has allowed me to consistently apply the most appropriate and elegant technological solutions toward the execution of business-critical initiatives.
• I worked on fully-automated, high-volume and large dollar amount transaction processing systems that handled Millions of dollars per transaction.
• I bring heavy hands-on experience in systems integration, data platforms, mobile, desktop, web, and highly-scalable distributed architectures.
• I possess outstanding technical, quantitative, and communication skills as well as excellent project organization and management experience, which includes dealing with multiple business units and technical areas of an organization.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

LANGUAGES: C++/Qt-QML, JAVA (full stack), Python, PHP (ZEND Framework), UNIX Shells, and JavaScript

OS / ENVIRONMENTS: AWS Cloud, MS Azure, IBM Bluemix, LINUX, Docker, Kubernetes, VMWare, Android, OS X, SaaS (APIs)

DATA PLATFORMS: PostgreSQL, TIBCO TDV (Data Federation), Oracle RDBMS, SQL/Server, MySQL, Sybase ASE, Big Data, NoSQL, MemCached, Hadoop, Impala, HDFS

MIDDLEWARE: RabbitMQ, JBOSS, Tomcat, WebLogic, ZEND Server, Oracle Service Bus, IBM ESB, IBM MQ Series, MuleSoft ESB

SECURITY & NETWORKING PROGRAMMING: OWASP, OAuth2, KALI Linux, LDAP, Kerberos (SSO), Active Directory, Wireshark

AUTOMATION & QA: Vagrant, Ansible, Chef, Continuous Integration, Unit Testing, JMeter, CAST AIP

DEV TOOLS: Eclipse, PyCharm, Qt Creator, IntelliJ, JDeveloper, ZEND Studio, Oracle SOA Suite, MapForce

OTHERS: AWS Cloud, Azure, Micro Services, SOA, Asynchronous Processing, Multi Processing, Web Services (REST/XML), WebSockets, AJAX, JQuery, GIT, SVN, Tableau

BUSINESS / QUANTITATIVE: Investments, Banking, Finance, Derivatives, Machine Learning Techniques, Symbolic Regressionquantitative/Predictive Model Development, Monte Carlo simulations, Profitability Analysis, Risk Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Lead Architect

CONFIDENTIAL, San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

• Lead architect and implementer for the data and integration services layer of a critical internet-facing B2B automation project.
• Architected and built a 5 stars iOS mobile-native and cross-platform Qt application for internal use by the system.
• From the ground up, built the national Application Integration Initiative for one of the major business lines. The goal was to optimize integration of over 200 applications, maximize reuse, and promote integration best practices across the system.
• Involved in research & development activities (including creation of POCs). Areas include: Document Management, Research, Machine Learning, NLP, Data Management, Security, Mobile, and Process Automation.
• Member of several review and advisory groups including Architecture Review Board for one major business line. Goals include: provide specialized architectural guidance, review strategic initiatives, approve new projects/standards, and retire old standards.
• Active contributor to the national Business Services Reuse initiative. Helped to create the technical and the business vision, the medium and long-term strategy, and establishing governance for managing reusable business services.
• Built from scratch the Data Federation practice and worked on full implementation of key projects.
• Participated and won internal Hackathon challenges that related to areas of emerging technologies, or hard-to-solve business problems: mobile, analytic, data acquisition, data management, etc...

Sr. Application Architect

Confidential, San Mateo, CA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading a national initiative tasked to build a reusable framework for handling the UI presentation, underlying business & data services for the global product pages, PM commentary, and fact-sheets (with current and historical performance data).
• Architected content management system, and publishing framework for simplified mutual fund prospectus (KIID—Part of European Union UCITS new Disclosure legislative requirements).
• Created global web strategy for re-engineering all of Franklin Templeton Investment external customer-facing sites (~32).
• Architected and built a full features live and on-demand Webcasting platform. Used globally for communicating with financial advisors (~170,000).
• Architected and built a marketing email and tracking management system for allowing internal wholesalers to communicate with financial advisors. Integrated with ExactTarget via SOAP APIs.
• Member of the Architecture Technology Council, internal group of architects from various departments that are responsible for reviewing all internal IT initiatives and for defining standards and best practices across the company.
• Lead member of the Strategic Development Services group--responsible for objectively reviewing mission critical applications, providing remediation guidance, and setting vendor acceptance criteria by leveraging tools like CAST AIP.

Sr. Tech Lead/Architect

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

• Architected and developed automated security valuation and trading engine for SponsorMatch™ series funds.
• Designed and developed allocation management system for the LifePath™ series funds (Spring MVC UI).
• Built iShares (ETF) index tracking system, used by the trading, portfolio management platforms, and the public web site.
• Architected and developed real-time web service for calculating clients' individual security positions across all fund's holdings.
• Designed and built an accounting message format converter (XML & MQ based) for transparently normalizing external vendor formats to internal representations.

Enterprise Architect

Confidential, Pleasanton, CA

Responsibilities:

• Created internal standards and guidelines for SOA messaging and protocol adoption.
• Provided Architectural guidance for all new initiatives, including Instant Credit web service, and iCard (Externally accessible Web application used by partners to access instant and branded underwriting services).
• Developed the necessary financial modules needed to support the new AdWords program.
• From scratch, built an Oracle 10g Data Warehouse for supporting marketing campaigns and analytical activities.
• Fully automated data exchanges between the bank and external business partners (UNIX, Oracle, SQL/Server, and JAVA).
• Developed interfaces to and from other internal banking systems, and created new normalized representation of all entity relationships (used for house-holding, risk management, official shareholder financial reporting to S.E.C., and maximization of product cross-sell).
• Technically responsible for the entire LDAP and WebLogic infrastructure that handles the main customer information system—WebLogic cluster of with over 7,000+ active concurrent users, plus Internet & IVR access (~12 Million hits/day).
• Designed and implemented an access-control security framework, J2EE and LDAP based, for WebLogic.
• Defined standards and metrics for assessing cluster performance, load-balancing behavior, security breaches, and errors. Subsequently, implemented a robust monitoring infrastructure using JAVA, Oracle, and PERL for tracking these metrics in real time, and storing data points with the objective of performing early problem detection, trend analysis, and capacity planning.